Cristiano Amon

Rule Changes

Active; testified at trial, declared verdict a win

A Delaware jury ruled that Arm breached its architecture license with Qualcomm and interfered with Qualcomm's business relationship with Meta. The award for those two claims: $2 — one dollar each. Both companies called it a win.

Updated 2 hours ago

Money Moves

Overseeing the patent cross-licensing deal with Huawei

Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year cross-license on October 5. It covers 5G, computing, and artificial intelligence, plus Qualcomm's purchase of some Huawei U.S. patents.

Updated 7 days ago

New Capabilities

Faces a second Arm rival on Windows after two years as the only one

On June 1 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled what the company is calling the RTX Spark Superchip, a 20-core Arm processor co-designed with MediaTek carrying a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores. Microsoft confirmed Windows on Arm support the same morning. ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and MSI committed to shipping RTX Spark laptops this fall, with Acer and GIGABYTE announced as follow-on brands.

Updated Oct 8

New Capabilities

Announced the new chips at Snapdragon Summit

Qualcomm's new flagship phone chips are the first mobile processors to break the 5 GHz clock-speed barrier. They're also the first built on TSMC's 2nm process, and they arrive in two versions instead of one.

Updated Sep 23

Rule Changes

Driving regulatory complaints against Arm in three jurisdictions

Arm Holdings designs the chip architecture found in roughly 99% of smartphones and a growing share of data-center processors. On May 6 it reported record quarterly results. Five days later, Bloomberg revealed the Federal Trade Commission had opened an antitrust probe into how the company distributes those designs.

Updated May 20